The "What Are You Working On?" Thread

[Fat-Alfie]

Yeah, I understand your problem - I have the same issue when using 3ds max's 'scatter' object. It just doesn't keep the explicit normals from the objects I want to scatter. It's not such a big deal with 3D grass as I always set the normals to 'up' after I have created all the grass, but it would be nice to be able to scatter bushes or low-poly trees.

I ended up with my own method of covering large areas of the landscape with bushes or low-poly trees. It's probably not the best way, but it works for me.

I start with a sqaure area or matrix of bushes, maybe 500m x 500m. Then I use a randomiser to make the pattern more natural.

Next, I draw a spline that describes the area of the landscape that I want to fill with bushes, and turn it into a poly object.

Then, I raise all of my bush objects about 500m in the air, and use the Glue plugin to drop them onto my vegetation area.

Those that fall outside of that area are left 500m up in the air, and thus are easy to delete, leaving behind only the ones that are within the area that I want to polulate.

As I said, probably slightly long-winded, but it works for me, and is the same method I have used to cover 100km² on some of my tracks.

 

[67JTM]

Wow- that Island Track looks just amazing, and I really enjoy to learn about the tricks of the masters.
I have been fiddling around with Blender for many years, but I wasn't confident enough to model a complete Car yet. However, to become more familiar with ksEditor and AC's materials I started to model a few bits...

The Car is just a placeholder, they could be fitted to other Cars too (via Custom Shaders Patch) .

 

[gecco]

trying to add 3d crowd, should not be massive as my 2d people but looks better for sure, it will be optional if perfomance is not good enought
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thank you, thank you, thank you

...yes, I'm a sucker for 3D trees and 3D people

 

[AccAkut]

another thing I didn't think I'd just learn on the spot: Simple cloth sim to make a flag drop

 

[millen]

Yeah, I understand your problem - I have the same issue when using 3ds max's 'scatter' object. It just doesn't keep the explicit normals from the objects I want to scatter. It's not such a big deal with 3D grass as I always set the normals to 'up' after I have created all the grass, but it would be nice to be able to scatter bushes or low-poly trees.

I ended up with my own method of covering large areas of the landscape with bushes or low-poly trees. It's probably not the best way, but it works for me.

*snip*

As a hack track modder... I see things like this and your previous post as well, and just give up... haha, it's just all too hard...
To get my ideas into my track, at the quality that I know and can see that can be achieved...nope.

I am sure glad there are people around that can do it though, so I can drive their creations.

 

[Salvatore Sirignano]

Yeah, I understand your problem - I have the same issue when using 3ds max's 'scatter' object. It just doesn't keep the explicit normals from the objects I want to scatter. It's not such a big deal with 3D grass as I always set the normals to 'up' after I have created all the grass, but it would be nice to be able to scatter bushes or low-poly trees.

I ended up with my own method of covering large areas of the landscape with bushes or low-poly trees. It's probably not the best way, but it works for me.

I start with a sqaure area or matrix of bushes, maybe 500m x 500m. Then I use a randomiser to make the pattern more natural.

Next, I draw a spline that describes the area of the landscape that I want to fill with bushes, and turn it into a poly object.

Then, I raise all of my bush objects about 500m in the air, and use the Glue plugin to drop them onto my vegetation area.

Those that fall outside of that area are left 500m up in the air, and thus are easy to delete, leaving behind only the ones that are within the area that I want to polulate.

As I said, probably slightly long-winded, but it works for me, and is the same method I have used to cover 100km² on some of my tracks.

Some of Max's native tools are absolutely dreadful and incredibly buggy. To be able to plant trees/do other stuff the way I want, I have had to dig out an old 32 bit version of Max 2010 I had on my old hard drive.
There's a script called advanced painter - scatter- you select the source object to be cloned, set random rotation/scale etc, density of object per brush stroke and away you go, painting on a chosen surface. Works wonderfully.

Advanced Painter | ScriptSpot

www.scriptspot.com

Max 2018 seems to be bloatware to me in comparison, it sure doesn't put the extra RAM to good use, it takes ages to load, hangs all the time, freezes in viewport...

 

[GRT-RT-500]

interesting, VRC change their free car mods to fictional brands. hmmmm im might going to consider this

also here some wip

 

[wmialil]

How do you pronounce Fresnel? Is it freznul or freynelle or something totally different??

 

[Ben O'Bro]

How do you pronounce Fresnel? Is it freznul or freynelle or something totally different??

[fʁenɛl]


oui

 

[NightEye87]

It's hideous how Google Translates pronounces the English variant.
French one is correct.

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[AadHofman]

A ripped 3D-model, no doubt, but now with a proper suspension geometry. The front has positive camber gain, which is kinda interesting.

 

[Kyuubeey]

A ripped 3D-model, no doubt, but now with a proper suspension geometry. The front has positive camber gain, which is kinda interesting.

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I'd advise to make the spacing on the RUCA CAR points wider. That arrangement is weaker than what a single UCA would be IRL, so you might have some toe instability or breakage from solver error etc.

Spacing them out to form an A-arm is acceptable, it will still behave like a single-link as long as the spacing is exact, but with less chance for breakage or errors.

 

[AadHofman]

Duly noted. Cheers!

 

[A Casual Sim Racer]

The 1906 Grand Prix season was the first Grand Prix season and it saw the inaugural Targa Florio and the inaugural French GP. We are building the two race winners for Assetto Corsa.

The 1906 Renault GP (nearing completion) & the 1906 Itala 35-40 (just begun):

 

[Sergio Loro]

thank you, thank you, thank you

...yes, I'm a sucker for 3D trees and 3D people

The 1906 Grand Prix season was the first Grand Prix season and it saw the inaugural Targa Florio and the inaugural French GP. We are building the two race winners for Assetto Corsa.

The 1906 Renault GP (nearing completion) & the 1906 Itala 35-40 (just begun):
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if i build some 30's track we can suppost a "vintage event" was held there with these cars ....

 

[A Casual Sim Racer]

if i build some 30's track we can suppost a "vintage event" was held there with these cars ....

That would be awesome.

The following are two my personal favorites from the 1930s that are of a more reasonable length. These could be good projects:

1. ROOSEVELT RACEWAY - New York (USA) (the 1937 layout has been made for GPL, but I believe the 1936 layout [6.39km] has never been created for any sim).

2. AUTODROMO DI MELLAHA - Tripoli (1933-1940) (13.140km)

But now if you want a real track making challenge....

1906 Le Mans (103km):

1906 Targa Florio (blue outline) (148km):

 

[Trava]

So I was thinking in the shower and accidentally came up with a way to do dynamic/"GT Sport" style booleans in AC.

 

[Nicecuppatea]

Ultimate track making challenge: the Peking - Paris rally of 1907. Won by an Itala, although it still amazes me that anyone finished - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_to_Paris

 

[AadHofman]

No dramatic changes to suspension geo here, but with new tires, aero tweaks, gearsets etc. it is no longer a shorttail/longtail hybrid like the original, and actually rotates in corners.

 

[A Casual Sim Racer]

The 1906 Itala 35/40 3d model is almost done. Some renders for you all...